Archive of: Marine

  • Vote for your favourite marine photo

    28 July 2024

    Vote for your favourite marine photo

    Celebrate National Marine Week by voting for your favourite underwater photo

     
  • Sea slugs - celebrating hidden gems in the ocean

    26 July 2024

    Sea slugs - celebrating hidden gems in the ocean

    They don’t sound like they’d be beautiful, but they really are. Alicja Szalanska, volunteer with Wild Coast Sussex, tells us about the hidden gems that are sea slugs

     
  • Happy World Ocean Day!

    08 June 2024

    Happy World Ocean Day!

    World Ocean Day is on June 8th every year and is the day we celebrate how vital the Ocean is to the health of our planet.

     
  • Staff - favourite marine species for World Ocean Day

    07 June 2024

    Staff - favourite marine species for World Ocean Day

    For World Ocean Day 2024, we asked around the staff team for their favourite marine species. There is such an amazing world of wildlife beneath (and near) the water.

     
  • Glimmers of hope for recovery of Sussex sea forests

    22 May 2024

    Glimmers of hope for recovery of Sussex sea forests

    The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project, the UK’s largest marine rewilding project, celebrates three years of seabed protection in Sussex today on the International Day of Biological Diversity.and have published their annual report.

     
  • Marine Photography Competition Launched

    15 May 2024

    Marine Photography Competition Launched

    Sussex is blessed with a magnificent coastline and coastal waters, which contain a really special, fascinating range of marine wildlife. In order to celebrate this, the marine team at Sussex Wildlife Trust, in collaboration with Sussex Underwater, is delighted to announce a Marine Photography competition for 2024.

     
  • Beachy Head East Marine Conservation Zone consultation

    11 April 2024

    Beachy Head East Marine Conservation Zone consultation

    Sussex IFCA are currently running a consultation on the proposed fisheries management for the Beachy Head East Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ). This public consultation ends on Friday 19 April.

     
  • Three years of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project

    21 March 2024

    Three years of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project

    We are celebrating three years of seabed protection and of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project.

     
  • Celebrate World Sleep Day like a Sea Creature

    15 March 2024

    Celebrate World Sleep Day like a Sea Creature

    On March 15th, it’s World Sleep Day – a time to celebrate the power of a good night’s rest. But did you know that even our underwater sea friends are masters of the snooze?

     
  • The remarkable bond of maternal relationships in Sussex marine animals

    13 March 2024

    The remarkable bond of maternal relationships in Sussex marine animals

    Find out more about different kinds of maternal care you might see in the marine world off the Sussex coast

     
  • Nursehound eggcase

    06 February 2024

    Nursehound eggcase

    During a citizen science training event on Rottingdean Beach, Wild Coast Sussex Project Officer Sophie Atkinson discovered a rare find for Sussex beaches, a Nursehound eggcase

     
  • Are you a Gladiator?

    30 January 2024

    Are you a Gladiator?

    The concept of Gladiators plays on our competitive human nature. In the animal world, competition is rife, however most animals aren’t in it for the glory – they usually compete for limited resources such as shelters, food and mates

     

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